Description
Book SynopsisFew countries can claim to have endured such a difficult and tortuous history as that of Iraq. Its varied peoples have had to contend with externally imposed state-building at the end of the First World War, through to the rise of authoritarian military regimes, to the all-encompassing power of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship.
Trade Review�Gareth Stansfield�s Iraq is a unique piece of research, meticulous, profound and, more importantly, timely and cool. Such multidimensional examination from objective scholars is a must.�
Faleh A. Jabar, Iraq Institute for Strategic Studies
�An essential reference, providing the most up-to-date account of the political history of Iraq from Saddam Hussein�s dictatorship to the emergence of ISIS. An outstanding analysis of contemporary Iraq and the forces leading to its fragmentation.�
Eugene Rogan, Oxford University, and author of The Arabs: A History and The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Artificiality, Identity, Dictatorship, and State-Building
Chapter 1: Legacies of Civilizations and Empires
Chapter 2: State Formation, Monarchy, and Mandate, 1918-1932
Chapter 3: Conceptualizing Iraqi Society
Chapter 4: From Authoritarian to Totalitarian State, 1933-1979
Chapter 5: Iraq at War, 1979-1989
Chapter 6: The Pariah State, 1989-2003
Chapter 7: Regime Change, 2003-
Chapter 8: From the Brink, to the Brink
Chapter 9: The Disintegration of Iraq
Chapter 10: The Rise of the Islamic State
Conclusion
